Revelation 19

¹ After this I seemed to hear the great sound of a huge crowd in heaven, singing, ‘Alleluia! Victory and glory and power to our God!

² He judges fairly, he punishes justly, and he has condemned the famous prostitute who corrupted the earth with her fornication; he has avenged his servants that she killed’.

³ They sang again, ‘Alleluia! The smoke of her will go up for ever and ever.’

⁴ Then the twenty-four elders and the four animals prostrated themselves and worshipped God seated there on his throne, and they cried, ‘Amen, Alleluia’.

⁵ Then a voice came from the throne; it said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and all who, great or small, revere him’.

⁶ And I seemed to hear the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun;

⁷ let us be glad and joyful and give praise to God, because this is the time for the marriage of the Lamb.

⁸ His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds of the saints.’

⁹ The angel said, ‘Write this: Happy are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb’, and he added, ‘All the things you have written are true messages from God’.

¹⁰ Then I knelt at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Don’t do that: I am a servant just like you and all your brothers who are witnesses to Jesus. It is God that you must worship.’ The witness Jesus gave is the same as the spirit of prophecy.

¹¹ And now I saw heaven open, and a white horse appear; its rider was called Faithful and True; he is a judge with integrity[*a], a warrior for justice.

¹² His eyes were flames of fire, and his head was crowned with many coronets; the name written on him was known only to himself,

¹³ his cloak was soaked in blood[*b] He is known by the name, The Word of God.

¹⁴ Behind him, dressed in linen of dazzling white, rode the armies of heaven on white horses.

¹⁵ From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike the pagans with; he is the one who will rule them with an iron sceptre,[*c] and tread out the wine of Almighty God’s fierce anger.

¹⁶ On his cloak and on his thigh[*d] there was a name written: The King of kings and the Lord of lords.

¹⁷ I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he shouted aloud to all the birds that were flying high overhead in the sky, Come here. Gather together at the great feast[*e] that God is giving.

¹⁸ There will be the flesh of kings for you, and the flesh of great generals and heroes, the flesh of horses and their riders and of all kinds of men, citizens and slaves, small and great.’

¹⁹ Then I saw the beast, with all the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight the rider and his army.

²⁰ But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had worked miracles on the beast’s behalf and by them had deceived all who had been branded with the mark of the beast and worshipped his statue. These two were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur.

²¹ All the rest were killed by the sword of the rider, which came out of his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.